This is a promotional video for the kickstarter campaign to self-publish “Realizing Empathy: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Making”, a book by Seung Chan Lim…See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion

Oxytocin, often referred to as a love hormone, boosts activity in brain areas of autistic children involving sight, hearing and understanding other people.   These are the preliminary results from an ongoing, large-scale study led by postoctoral f…

My medical school’s curriculum includes several lectures on compassion and empathy in the clinical setting.There has been much talk recently about the decline of empathy among physicians. Some have attributed this to a fault with the medical scho…

Empathy Needs CenteringNevertheless, we must not put the cart before the horse, as some leftists do, by making morality a matter of empathy apart from rules. Like shame and most other facets of our emotional lives, empathy must be cultivated by moral l…